Former President Donald Trump will claim to be the leader of the Republican Party and his “supposed candidate in 2024” when he makes his first public appearance since leaving office during the Conservative political action conference next weekend in Orlando, according to a report .
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A longtime Trump adviser told Axios that his CPAC speech would be a ‘show of strength’ and said the message would be: ‘I may not have Twitter or the Oval Office, but I’m still sending business. The source apparently added that “repayment is his biggest obsession.”
In these September 29, 2020 file photos, President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump hold hands on stage after the first presidential debate at Case Western University and Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland, Ohio. (AP Photo / Julio Cortez, file)
Trump’s advisers will reportedly meet with him in Mar-a-Lago this week to plan his next political moves and to draw up the framework for kingship in the 2022 midterm elections.
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According to Axios, Trump is expected to stand behind the ten Republicans of the House who voted for him in his indictment, spurred on by the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, and the seven GOP senators who voted with Democrats to plead guilty. find.
Trump was acquitted, with 57 senators voting for his conviction – less than the required two-thirds majority – and 43 voting against the conviction.
He also apparently plans to argue in the CPAC speech that many of his predictions about President Biden have already come true.
“Trump is effectively the Republican Party,” Trump’s senior adviser Jason Miller told Fox News. “The only gap is between Beltway insiders and Republicans at the grassroots level across the country. If you attack President Trump, you are attacking the Republican grassroots level.”
Trump has found support from state Republican officials who have condemned some members of Congress who voted against him. Meanwhile, his leadership, PAC, Save America, has $ 75 million on hand to help set up primary challenges to sitting Republicans who opposed him, as well as a database of ten million names.
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A Suffolk University / USA Today poll found that 46% of Trump supporters would leave the Republican Party and join a Trump party, should he decide to form one, compared to 27% who joined the GOP would remain.
Half of the individuals surveyed said the Republican Party should become ‘more loyal to Trump’, even if it means losing support from Republicans from the established government, compared to 19% who say the party should become less loyal to Trump and must be more in line with the Republicans of the established Republic.
The survey among 1,000 Trump voters, identified from 2020 polls, was conducted last Monday through Friday by landline and cell phone. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.
Fox News’ Brooke Singman Contributed to This Report